Joan Steinau Lester

A stunning tale about the deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter. Mama' s Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who travelled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraced them— except when it didn' t. They raise a son and daughter, but the tensions surrounding them have a negative...